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kennie · 09-07-2013, 10:38 PM

I just did it this week but it's kind of expensive. I live in US and have wanted several UK books for quite a while. So, I opened a new UK account with a UK address (yes, I used a valid address of someone I didn't even know-- you may find that unpleasant, but since i was only planning to buy some kindle books I decided to do it anyways). Then, I had to buy an IP address changer. I found one that had a three month membership for 17.95 and bought it and installed it on Firefox since I use the U.S. Amazon account on Chrome usually. Then, the last step. . . from my US account, I signed into the UK Amazon and bought UK Amazon gift card for the amount I needed for my books and chose the printable option so I'd get the number as soon as possible. Then, with the number of my gift card, I signed into Amazon UK and went to my account and added the gift card to my account (Amazon UK will NOT let you buy ebooks with a US credit card). After I had the gift card into my account, I bought all my books.

Oh-- big deal here. I needed to DEREGISTER my Kindle for PC (I didn't want to do this with my real kindle) on my US account and uninstalled it. Then I reinstalled it with my Amazon UK account. If you don't have kindle for pc, install it from the new UK Amazon account-- you need a kindle option to have amazon download to.

So, then, after I downloaded my five books, I found them in "MY KINDLE CONTENT" and changed them from Amazon format to epub with calibre. THen from epub to mobi. And then I installed them to my kindle with the usb cord. Yes, the drm issue will be an issue so you still have to figure out a way around that. I am new here and don't know the forum rules about htis, so I'll remain silent on this subject-- if you have had to do this before, you'll have to do it now, too.

Now they are in my kindle drm free. Honestly, I'm not sure I had to do the format change from amazon format to epub to mobi, but i did anyways. It may have worked fine with the drm removed and just put into my kindle in the original format.

09-07-2013, 10:38 PM	#22
kennie Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 1008 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: kindle	I just did it this week but it's kind of expensive. I live in US and have wanted several UK books for quite a while. So, I opened a new UK account with a UK address (yes, I used a valid address of someone I didn't even know-- you may find that unpleasant, but since i was only planning to buy some kindle books I decided to do it anyways). Then, I had to buy an IP address changer. I found one that had a three month membership for 17.95 and bought it and installed it on Firefox since I use the U.S. Amazon account on Chrome usually. Then, the last step. . . from my US account, I signed into the UK Amazon and bought UK Amazon gift card for the amount I needed for my books and chose the printable option so I'd get the number as soon as possible. Then, with the number of my gift card, I signed into Amazon UK and went to my account and added the gift card to my account (Amazon UK will NOT let you buy ebooks with a US credit card). After I had the gift card into my account, I bought all my books. Oh-- big deal here. I needed to DEREGISTER my Kindle for PC (I didn't want to do this with my real kindle) on my US account and uninstalled it. Then I reinstalled it with my Amazon UK account. If you don't have kindle for pc, install it from the new UK Amazon account-- you need a kindle option to have amazon download to. So, then, after I downloaded my five books, I found them in "MY KINDLE CONTENT" and changed them from Amazon format to epub with calibre. THen from epub to mobi. And then I installed them to my kindle with the usb cord. Yes, the drm issue will be an issue so you still have to figure out a way around that. I am new here and don't know the forum rules about htis, so I'll remain silent on this subject-- if you have had to do this before, you'll have to do it now, too. Now they are in my kindle drm free. Honestly, I'm not sure I had to do the format change from amazon format to epub to mobi, but i did anyways. It may have worked fine with the drm removed and just put into my kindle in the original format.